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  • Title: The distribution of galanin message-associated peptide-like immunoreactivity in the pig.
    Author: Bretherton-Watt D, Kenny MJ, Ghatei MA, Bloom SR.
    Journal: Regul Pept; 1990 Mar 05; 27(3):307-15. PubMed ID: 1691516.
    Abstract:
    Using a radioimmunoassay (RIA) developed to the N-terminal part of the predicted sequence of porcine galanin message-associated peptide (GMAP), we have confirmed the existence of GMAP-like immunoreactivity (-LI) in normal porcine tissues. GMAP-LI was found to parallel the distribution of galanin-immunoreactivity (-IR), although consistently the concentrations detected were, on a molar ratio, significantly less than those measured for galanin throughout the gastrointestinal tract, brain, spinal cord, adrenal and pituitary gland. As cleavage of the prohormone would be expected to produce galanin and GMAP on an equimolar basis, it is possible that the endogenous, intact GMAP peptide does not fully cross-react with the antibody raised to the N-terminal GMAP sequence. Gel chromatography of tissue extracts revealed a single molecular form of galanin-IR in the gut and four distinct molecular forms in the adrenal gland. GMAP-LI eluted as a single immunoreactive component in the gut, and in the adrenal gland there were two major molecular forms, one of which was apparently also detected by the galanin assay, and a small amount of N-terminal fragment. This molecular heterogeneity seems likely to be a result of the various possible prohormone cleavage products and/or posttranslational processing modifications. Further analysis of the galanin gene products needs to be undertaken in order to confirm this.
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